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| 1142 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1142 MCXLII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1895 |
| Armenian calendar | 591 ԹՎ ՇՂԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5892 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1063–1064 |
| Bengali calendar | 549 |
| Berber calendar | 2092 |
| English Regnal year | 7 Ste. 1 – 8 Ste. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1686 |
| Burmese calendar | 504 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6650–6651 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 3839 or 3632 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 3840 or 3633 |
| Coptic calendar | 858–859 |
| Discordian calendar | 2308 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1134–1135 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4902–4903 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1198–1199 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1063–1064 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4242–4243 |
| Holocene calendar | 11142 |
| Igbo calendar | 142–143 |
| Iranian calendar | 520–521 |
| Islamic calendar | 536–537 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiji (era) 2 / Kōji 1 (康治元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1048–1049 |
| Julian calendar | 1142 MCXLII |
| Korean calendar | 3475 |
| Minguo calendar | 770 before ROC 民前770年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −326 |
| Seleucid era | 1453/1454 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1684–1685 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 1268 or 887 or 115 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 1269 or 888 or 116 |
Year 1142 (MCXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Spring – Emperor John II (Komnenos) and his sons lead an Byzantine expeditionary force across Anatolia to Antalya. He drives back the Seljuks and Turcomans – who again are trying to invade Phrygia. John strengthens the frontier defences in northern Syria and sends a embassy to Germany – to seek an alliance against King Roger II of Sicily. To seal the alliance, the emissaries request that King Conrad III send a princess of his family to be married to the emperor's son, Manuel. Instead, Conrad selects his sister-in-law, Bertha of Sulzbach, and sends her to the Byzantine Empire escorted by Emicho of Leiningen, bishop of Würzburg.[1]
- Late Summer – John II establishes a supply base for his further campaigns at Antalya. While waiting for reinforcements, his eldest son Alexios and appointed heir, falls ill and dies. His other two sons, Andronikos and Isaac are tasked to escort the body, but during the voyage Andronikos also dies. John continues his campaign against the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia – to re-conquer the fortresses that the Danishmends has taken. He appears by forced marches at Turbessel in mid-September.[2] Meanwhile, Isaac brings the corpses of his two brothers back to Constantinople, where they are entombed in the Pantokrator Monastery.
Europe
- King Louis VII (the Younger) becomes involved in a civil war with Theobald II (the Great), count of Champagne, by permitting his cousin Ralph I of Vermandois (seneschal of France) to repudiate his wife, Theobald's sister Eleanor of Champagne, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, his wife's sister, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
- Sigurd II, a Norwegian pretender, is joined in his efforts to overthrow the 7-year-old King Inge I (Haraldsson) by Inge's older half-brother Eystein II, who becomes co-ruler. He receives one third of the late Harald's kingdom.
- May – Conrad III makes a peace agreement with the 13-year-old Henry the Lion at Frankfurt. He is appointed as duke of Saxony, which territories are deprived from his father, the late Duke Henry X (the Proud).[3]
- Duke Władysław II (the Exile) attemps to subject his younger (half)-brothers to re-unit Poland. He is supported by the alliances with the Kievan Rus' and the Holy Roman Empire.
- Summer – Conrad III enters Bohemia to reinstate his brother-in-law Vladislaus II as duke, whose half-sister Gertrude of Babenberg he is married.
Levant
- Autumn – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (atabeg) of Mosul, continues his campaign against the Kurds in southeastern Anatolia (since 1141). Byzantine forces under John II fail to take Antioch. [4]
Africa
- Abd al-Mu'min, ruler of the Almohad Caliphate, is unable to feed his population during a famine. He recognize the de facto protectorate of Roger II to support the commercial center of Mahdia.[5]
- A Norman raid against the city of Tripoli fails.[6]
Asia
- October 11 – The Treaty of Shaoxing between the Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty, ending the Jurchen campaigns against the Song Dynasty in China, is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court.
- 3-year-old Emperor Konoe succeeds Emperor Sutoku on the throne of Japan.
Births
- Farid od-Din Mohammad ebn Ebrahim 'Attar, Persian mystical poet (d. 1220)
- Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois, countess ruler (d. 1183)
- Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1192)
- King William I of Scotland (d. 1214)
Deaths
- January 28 – Yue Fei, Chinese general and poet (b. 1103)
- April 21 – Peter Abelard, French scholastic philosopher (b. 1079)[7]
- August 2 – Alexios (Komnenos), Byzantine co-emperor (b. 1106)
- Andronikos (Komnenos), Byzantine prince (b. 1108)
- Helbirga of Austria, duchess consort of Bohemia
- Orderic Vitalis, English monk and chronicler (b. 1075)[8]
References
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 179. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of The Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, p. 179. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
- ^ Emmerson, Richard K. (2013). Key Figures in Medieval Europe, p. 320. ISBN 978-1-136-77518-5.
- ^ David Nicolle (2009). Osprey: Campaign 204. The Second Crusade 1148: Disaster outside Damascus, p. 15. ISBN 978-184603-354-4.
- ^ Abulafia, David (1985). The Norman kingdom of Africa and the Norman expeditions to Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-416-6.
- ^ Bresc, Henri (2003). "La Sicile et l'espace libyen au Moyen Age" [Sicily and the Libyan space in the Middle Ages] (PDF) (in French). Retrieved January 17, 2012.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ King, Peter (2015). "Peter Abelard". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ "Orderic Vitalis | Norman history". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved July 28, 2018.